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National Office Week in Review: August 1, 2017

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To date, the Professional Standards program has received 2,375 submissions wi th 90 percent of those being resolved. That's 2 , 136 issues that NATCA was able to resolve the issue at the lowest level, peer to peer, without management involvement in the outcome. Approximately 70% of those cases are submitted by management, demonstrating the FAA's belief that the peer - to - peer method use d by the program is working. The recidivism rate is very low, indicating that the one on one discussion between committee members and controllers has a long - lasting, positive effect on the safety of the system and the professionalism of our controllers. I f you have any questions about the Professional Standards Program, please don't hesitate to contact any of the NATCA National Professional Standards committee members at ps@natca.net . Andy Marosvari Garth Koleszar Jos h Cooper A IR TRAFFIC REQUIREMENTS (AJV - 7) James Keith (D10) is NATCA's Article 114 Representative to the AJV - 7 Office. His update for this report is below. Terminal CHI T he T erminal CHI team attend ed the third demo of terminal work package one concepts a t MITRE July 18 - 20th . The team wor ked with several new concepts: spacing and merging tools, messaging tools for coordination, separation tools , and auto point out capabil ities with the ENROUTE sectors. The concepts are in the early stages and the T erminal CHI team , along with the TAMR ops team , is working with MITRE to mature the concepts. The fourth and final demo will be the last two weeks of August and the ENROUTE National User Team will be there for a few days to discuss the coordination tools and auto point out feature. Advanced IM W e have continued working on the C onOps within the IM workgroup. NATCA now has a terminal rep for IM and I will be reducing my role on this project. E - IDS I am continuing to support Amanda Hodge on this project. We schedule d a conference call with the 804 team to get an idea of the number of E - IDS needed post 2020 after some consol idations have been completed. AJV - 7 is tasked in coming up with a number of screens needed for the NAS. I will continue to work with Amanda moving forward on this project. DATACOMM Chad Geyer (ZLA) is the Article 1 14 Representative for DataComm. Below is his update. Last week Controller Pilot Data Link Communication (CPDLC) sites sent over 5 , 000 clearances a day. The Data Comm Program held site vi sits with RSW and CHS. The facilities will be receiving the Tower Data Link Services System (TDLS), which include FDIO, D - ATIS, and PDC, and CPDLC services. VNY is also scheduled to receive a TDLS system, however, the site visit ha s not occurred yet. Site visits by the core team to current CPDLC facilities continue as they observe operations and validate training. These visits will continue throughout the summer.

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